Jensen Jørgen. Prehistory of Denmark

Translated by Joan F. Davidson. — Copenhagen: National Museum, 1998. — 144 p. — (Guides to the National Museum). — ISBN: 87-89384-26-1.The National Museum’s collection of prehistoric finds is one of the oldest in Europe. It was established in the year 1807, when King Frederik VI (1768-1839) set up a royal commission for the preservation of antiquities; the collections were housed in the loft of Trinitatis Church, behind the Round Tower. In 1816 a young merchant, Christian Jorgensen Thomsen (1788-1863) took over the day-to-day management of the collections. In the years which followed he created not only the collections from Denmark’s prehistory, but also a large proportion of the other collections which make up the National Museum today.